(Harishkumar Baburao Pathangay) Conceal/Mask/Hide your critical business logic in Database using Obfuscation of DDLs.

(Philip Nelson) Let me introduce you to the infrastructure of a project I’ve been working on recently:

(Michael Sansoterra) In the first tip, I introduced the new suite of HTTP functions in DB2 for i 7.1 and demonstrated the HTTPGETCLOB and HTTPGETBLOB scalar functions. I’ll continue the topic by considering how to include and retrieve HTTP header information with each request. This tip assumes you h

(Whei-Jen Chen, Nigel Campbell, Martin Fuerderer, Frederick Ho, Holger Kirstein, Keshava Murthy and Ramanathan Sivaguru) IBM Informix Warehouse Accelerator (IWA) is a state-of-the-art in-memory database designed to exploit affordable innovations in memory and processor technology and trends in novel

(Harishkumar Baburao Pathangay) How to Find Storage and Table space Paths used by Database from Backup image only.

(Chris Eaton) I’ve blogged on competitors and the advantages of BLU acceleration over those competitors so now it’s time to dig deeper into the technology inside of BLU. This week we will talk about columnar storage, next week we will look deeper into the simplicity in BLU and then in subsequent blo

(Carlo Randone and Marco Antonioni) Leveraging the capabilities of the Advanced Integration Services (AIS) in IBM Business Process Manager V8.0.1 Advanced, this series describes the implementation of a distributed WS-AT scenario involving two databases (Microsoft SQL Server and IBM DB2) installed on

(Dave Beulke) Big Data disaster recovery is a big issue. Of course, any Big Data business sponsor vows that the entire Big Data database is necessary, and demands it be included in the disaster recovery plans.

(Ember Crooks) Last week, I read this article by Craig Mullins: http://bitonthewire.wpengine.com/articlesection/default.aspx?TargetID=70585. Go read it, this blog entry will still be here when you get back.

(Ember Crooks) Low cardinality indexes can be bad for performance. But, why? There are many best practices like this that DBAs hear and follow but don’t always understand the reason behind. This article empowers DBAs to understand the logic behind why low cardinality indexes can be bad for performan